At 5mm, the thinnest smartphone ever is on the way

The Gionee GN9005 could end up being the thinnest smartphone to date. At 5mm thin (.2 inches), turn the device sideways and it disappears. Alright, not really, but it is an extremely thin profile and a nice bit of engineering. To put this in perspective, the Apple iPhone 5s, hardly a fatty, is 7.6mm thin. The Samsung Galaxy S5 is 8.1mm thick.

The Gionee GN9005 features a 4.8 inch AMOLED display with resolution of 720 x 1280. A quad-core 1.2 GHz CPU is under the hood with 1GB of RAM inside. There is 16GB of native storage on board. Back and front-facing cameras weigh in at 8MP and 5MP respectively, and a 2050mAh battery powers up the device. Android 4.3 is pre-installed, out of the box.

The phone has been certified by China's version of the FCC, TENNA, and appears headed for China Mobile. That explains the TD-LTE connectivity on the handset. No word yet on pricing, but with the TENNA certification behind it, the phone could be released sooner rather than later.

excelent engineering indeed. and there apple struggle to get at 7mm point thicknes and with a mere 1800mah battery? just saying apple enginnering suck here. big name company always have have alot compromise with sales and profit at designing the product rather than show their true capability.

Maybe it's 2050 mAh vs 1810 mAh battery, but that honestly doesn't mean anything. Some people here maybe remember lessons of physics where we learned that the workforce done by electricity is equal to current multiplied by voltage. That means you can't just take the current and know how much energy a battery contains. Well even then we can make a comparison purely from current but only when comparing batteries with same voltages. 99% of phones now have 3,72 or 3,82 V. Gionee is almost certainly fooling us as they intentionally decreased the voltage to bump up the current, but whatever they did the battery is still the same size: crap http://blog.gsmarena.com/gionee-elife-s5-5-battery-life/

So they either have really, really bad power managment, or the battery is too small. But we will still need a teardown to prove that.

Meh, I never get the craze of ultra thin phones. I mean 7.5 to 9.5mm is just perfect. If there's one thing I hate bout my moto G is the bulky nature....huge bezels, 12mm thick body(curves help though, its thin at edges).

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